“This product is known to cause cancer in the state of California”

Isn't everything?

I love seeing those signs on the jetway in Cali airports. It's basically saying to me "the state of California is known to cause cancer by the state of California"

We also had some super cheap mice at one job that had that sticker on them. Like $1.02 per mouse. And it was on the cable. We were like a) profit margin, b) are we safe of we just don't handle the cable or is the mouse body itself the problem?

Look, given that for the majority of cancers there are no definitive environmental causes, the state of California should basically slap a sticker like that on the forehead of each one of its residents. Anything else is not full disclosure.

A dirty little secret of Prop 65 warnings is that businesses often put them on things as a lazy CYA measure, not actually having evaluated whether they've exceeded the limits.

Yeah, or an understandable side effect. The warning, when applied to everything is just noise.

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